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  • Janus Films
  • 2 h 26 m
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  • Janus Films
  • 2 h 26 m

Summary The year is 2044: artificial intelligence controls all facets of a stoic society as humans routinely “erase” their feelings. Hoping to eliminate pain caused by their past-life romances, Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux) continually falls in love with different incarnations of Louis (George MacKay). Set first in Belle Époque-era Paris Louis is a Br...

Directed By: Bertrand Bonello

Written By: Guillaume Bréaud, Benjamin Charbit, Henry James, Bertrand Bonello

In Theaters Now
  • 2024
  • Janus Films
  • 2 h 26 m
  • 2024
  • Janus Films
  • 2 h 26 m

The Beast

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 28 Critic Reviews
80
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 9 User Ratings
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Summary The year is 2044: artificial intelligence controls all facets of a stoic society as humans routinely “erase” their feelings. Hoping to eliminate pain caused by their past-life romances, Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux) continually falls in love with different incarnations of Louis (George MacKay). Set first in Belle Époque-era Paris Louis is a Br...

Directed By: Bertrand Bonello

Written By: Guillaume Bréaud, Benjamin Charbit, Henry James, Bertrand Bonello

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 28 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 28 Critic Reviews
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89% Positive
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11% Mixed
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100
Apr 4, 2024
This shamelessly ambitious epic is about, among other things, civilizational collapse and existential retribution, yet it is held together by something delicate.
By Beatrice Loayza FULL REVIEW
91
Sep 14, 2023
Across each twist in time and place that can rush together without warning, the grounding force to it all is Seydoux.
By Chase Hutchinson FULL REVIEW
90
Oct 18, 2023
Rather than copying the core premise of the short story, Bonello’s French- and English-language adaptation uses James’ dense, descriptive prose to weave detailed textures and sensations in each of his timelines.
By Siddhant Adlakha FULL REVIEW
80
Apr 5, 2024
Bonello posits that, even in fear, feeling is more important than forgetting, and every little death is a door to another future.
By Graeme Guttmann FULL REVIEW
77
Oct 9, 2023
While its assortment of recurring images, conversations, scenes, and dynamics intermittently borders on the exhausting, it plays as an intriguing meditation on desire, dreams, and the things that make us who we are—and without which we’re lost.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW
63
Apr 11, 2024
The film “The Beast” is a Russian nesting doll of genres: a belle epoque romance set inside a contemporary serial-killer thriller set inside a dystopian sci-fi drama.
By Michael O'Sullivan FULL REVIEW
40
Apr 25, 2024
In one of those odd happenstances of cinema, The Beast shares those themes of processing romantic trauma through temporal displacement with Alice Lowe’s Monty Python-esque Timestalker: but La bête lacks its pithiness and humanity.
By Richard Whittaker FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 9 User Ratings
6.4
67% Positive
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33% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 9 User Ratings
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Production Company Les Films du Bélier, My New Picture, Arte France Cinéma, Sons of Manual, Ami Paris, Jamal Zeinal Zade, Société de Développement des Entreprises Culturelles (SODEC), Téléfilm Canada, Crédit d'Impôt pour la Production Cinématographique ou Magnétoscopique Canadienne, Canal+, Ciné+, ARTE, Eurimages, La Région Île-de-France, Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Département des Alpes-Maritimes, Cinécap 6, Cinéaxe 4, SG Image 2021, Cinémage 17, Palatine Étoile 20, Arte Cofinova 19
Release Date Apr 5, 2024
Duration 2 h 26 m
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Awards

La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Valladolid International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Venice Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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